I did use the slow hardener. It was a 75 deg day and the amount of flox required to fill the gaps was fairly substantial, so we still had a lot of heat generated.
paul
Paul, I can't remember if we used the slow hardener for the door or not when I
was in Redmond. Mike In a message dated 2/13/2011 2:11:11 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
pbricker@att.net writes:
I bonded my door (Fast build door in an ES) to the top of the fuselage
with the top clecoed in-place. I used towels, etc. to prevent the flox from
running down and attaching to the lower section. A few other things to
note.
First, make sure you use the Lancair provided spacers Mike
mentioned.
Second, I had my brother inside injecting the flox into the access holes,
my brother-in-law on the outside dealing with the excess that oozed out to the
gaps, and I was mixing flox and loading cartridges as fast as I could. That is
to say, it's a least a three man job.
Don't have the windshield installed! It's the only access to the inside
during this process! I bonding in the windshield well after this step, just
before I installed the instrument panel.
It gets HOT inside the plane during the process. There is a lot of epoxy
going-off, generating heat. It even starts cooking out of the flox and
dripping. Have the guy inside wearing long sleeves and an old hat.
Paul Bricker
ES builder
Former ES owner
Tom
I went through the builder assist at the factory
a number of
years ago. As you suggest the top is cleco'ed in
place and
the door is bonded in, top is then removed
again.
Art
L IV
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 7:37
AM
Subject: [LML] IVP Door
Installation
After a shameful hiatus on my IVPT, I'm
finally back on it with some real passion. I bought the fast build
door, and seems like I remember many builders installing it while the
fuselage top was temporarily fastened (cleco'ed). I will be installing
all my windows in the next week, and would like to install the door after
that, if it's efficient to do before bonding the top on. I
looked in the archives, but I can't seem to find a search filter that
doesn't give me 3,000 emails, or narrows it down too far to about 10.
If someone can give me direction here, I would greatly appreciate it.
If it's best to install the door after bonding the top on, no problem.
I'll leave that project until later.
Thanks in advance.
Tom Sullivan
Fast build kit with slow build
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